Ivan Sandrea is the CEO of Sierra Oil & Gas, S. de R.L. de C.V. He has more than 20 years of executive and technical experience in oil and gas and has been active in Mexico for more than a decade. Prior to Sierra, Ivan’s leadership, new venture growth, commercial, and technical positions included: Co-head of the global oil and gas emerging markets practice for EY, President of Energy Intelligence Group, Vice President of Upstream Strategy and Business Development at Statoil, Board Member of Pan Andean Resources, Officer at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Investment Banker at Merrill Lynch and Exploration/Operations Geologist at BP.
He is an active member of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), the Global Business Policy Council of ATKearney, and has been involved with the UNECE Expert Group on Resource Classification at the UN. Ivan’s academic activities include co-founder, Board Member, and guest lecturer at the Executive Energy MBA program at Wirtschaftsuniversität (WU) in Vienna, lecturer at the Executive Energy Program at Mexico’s ITAM University, member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club, as well as authorship of over 15 leading research papers. Ivan holds a BSc in Geology from Baylor University, an MSc and MBA from Edinburgh University and attended the Berkeley Executive Leadership Program in Stanford.